German Federal Election 23rd February 2025

[The Brain]

I do have to say I do not understand why people immigrate to Europe.

"You know that continent with centuries of history of ethnic cleansing and genocide at home and around the world? I sure would like to be a minority there."

To decide to move, the new place only has to be better.

[Syt]

The AfD in Karlsruhe has thrown these "Deportation Tickets" into mailboxes - apparently only into mailboxes with "foreign sounding" names (though AfD says it was supposed to go to all mailboxes).



Basically, it's made out to "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT" from GERMANY to SAFE COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. Flight is BTW2025 (BTW = BUndestagswahl = Federal election), boarding time is 8 am till 6 pm (18:00), which is how long voting is open, though some commented that AfD probably didn't hate that it comes out as 8 - 18 (H - AH, i.e. Heil Adolf Hitler). Note at the bottom says "only remigration can save Germany now" and "It's nice at home, too".


AfD organization in Göppingen posted:



"It's been nice here. But it's nice at home, too. Farewell. Ticket is on us."

[Norgy]

And the AfD's voters are of course ready to fill the coveted positions currently filled with immigrants? Such as in healthcare and rubbish collection? 

[Admiral Yi]

I was curious so I looked up the number of illegal immigrants in Germany.  Wiki says 500K to 1M, which is more than I  expected.

[Syt]

I'd assume a lot of those would be asylum seekers who had their request denied and then didn't leave the country, or ones who would have to register in a different country (EU rule, simplified, is to request asylum in the country you first arrived in) instead of Germany.

[Syt]

Mind you, some staffers of AfD MPs were part of a clandestine meeting with other far-right persons in 2023 that discussed that ultimately remigration would also have to mean stripping naturalized immigrants of their German citizenship in order to deport them.

[Sheilbh]

Mind you, some staffers of AfD MPs were part of a clandestine meeting with other far-right persons in 2023 that discussed that ultimately remigration would also have to mean stripping naturalized immigrants of their German citizenship in order to deport them.

Yeah the "remigration" discourse in some parts of Europe (it feels like especially Austria and Germany) seems to not be about illegal immigration but citizens. It seems very Enoch Powell.

[Razgovory]

That seems dreadful.  

[Norgy]

Mind you, some staffers of AfD MPs were part of a clandestine meeting with other far-right persons in 2023 that discussed that ultimately remigration would also have to mean stripping naturalized immigrants of their German citizenship in order to deport them.

Yeah the "remigration" discourse in some parts of Europe (it feels like especially Austria and Germany) seems to not be about illegal immigration but citizens. It seems very Enoch Powell.

This concept seems to have a certain hold on the fringe in Norway as well. However, in the mainstream parties, and I include the Progress Party and the formerly Maoist Rødt (Red) among them, immigration is being discussed by referring to crime rate rather than people. In our very peculiar Norwegian-ness, high violent crime rates are called "a Swedish situation".

Violent crime, as in shivving and some more or less targeted shootings, has become more visible, and make for better copy than tax evasion. The rather non-stance the prosecutors in Norway adapted on drug crime by not prosecuting, but still not legalising or decriminalising say marihuana, heroin or coke does create a competitive environment for young entrepreneurs willing to take a lot of risk. Such as having their heads blown off or their families targeted by other entrepreneurs wanting to increase their share of the market.

Coke is everywhere.

[crazy canuck]

Coke is everywhere.

I blame this

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM&si=KCCwH5q-ieGoqzqD